Australian election: five things to know about Kevin Rudd

Australia goes to the polls on September 7. This is what you need to know
about Kevin Rudd, the prime minister.

What you need to know about Kevin RuddPhoto: AP

By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney

10:15PM BST 11 Aug 2013

1. Ruddisms

Kevin Rudd's fondness for homespun and invented slang includes "fair shake of the sauce bottle" (which presumably means to have a "fair go") and "rough end of the pineapple" (presumably the fate of those who do not get a fair shake). His fondness for jargon culminated in his use of the phrase "detailed programmatic specificity" during a speech in Germany.The phrase was labelled as untranslatable in either German or English.